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Strangely enough Carenado make the TBM for Xplane as well as many other aircraft for it.

I would add that I just counted my manual and Intro manuals on my bookshelf...I have not included the ones I have not printed though they are on disk. came to 287. i have read these generally on first install but after that generally use the method Kyle does not like of searching. It is asking a bit much for a user to remember all of these and where to get the information straight away. This is a good thing though as we would hate to see kyle out of a job.

It would seem judging on scaninavian13's post that there are some to whom this is a problem. If not there would have been no reason for his writing this: " . Most of the time, activation issues stem from people not understanding the purpose/use of the license return function (and return the license when uninstalling/reinstalling, and do so habitually - don't do this, please), disabling system functions without understanding what they're doing (disabling services for the performance "boost"), and running a search on their PC for anything with "PMDG" in the name/contents and deleting it on each uninstall/reinstall (again - don't do this, it's completely unnecessary, adds extra work for the team here, but also makes you wait until we can manually return the license if you've run out of activations). Very rarely do the issues actually stem from something like this. "

It may be an opportune place to tell us what the return licence function is for and how and when to use it. It seems there is confusion.

R2D2 would have a hard job getting support

I agree he does wonderful videos which show just what can be done.... Of course (and I understand this) they do not not show what cannot... I do think it is important for people with relationships with companies (or "Friends with Benefits") to acknowledge and even advise this but there is nothing wrong with having the relationship. rob has provided us all a lot of help. One think that Rob may help us with is telling us how much the change to 64 bit will increase disk size and disk size of 64 bit add ons which have to be loaded and whether this will have an impact on performance.

ying th I think I am guilty of some cross miss posting here as what I was refering to was the pricing policy of the new ASN upgrade where the removal of dual licence on the upgrade will cost me about $80. With PMDG I believe the original statement by RR to the effect that pricing would continue through 64 bit conversion was modified to through 3.3. If you have any more on this the information would interest me as it affects two buying decisions which I would like to do with you but have put on hold due to this. I do think that if there is a need to repurchase everything at anywhere near full rate P3d will have a hard time and risk losing a share of their market to the allready available (and rapidly improving) Xplane offerings. I know I would probably transfer all my new purchases to there if I had to start again. I fly P3D and FSX largely because of the base I have allready invested in.

Asia is a big lack in many respects,,,,Orbyx included, its landmass is a very bare cousin to the old landmases in other areas.

Wheen p3d 64 comes out i will only have default planes they give with it. You will have to buy everything else. At least Xplane will have things to fly with. to remove the dual fsx p3d licence on the upgrade makes this untenable as about $80more is not acceptible.

I expected a rejigged fsx engine with graphic improvements and this is what i got, A slick skinning job on an old product. I bought it in the same way I would have bought a mission, to look, practice skills which may be rusty and to enjoy, I expected a minimum of training to be at least of the standard of the lessons in FSX. They aren't. They do look pretty though. I would have to say in this excercise I considerer Dovetail as they like to say " have failed the lesson." By the way when I did training to deliver and develop Competency Based Training I was allways taught that a student never failed. They may however have not met the predefined objectives. Failing students make them feel bad. Failing customers makes the seller feel bad with the lost future sales.

If we accept everything as we do now the developers will not bother to complete their aircraft which is the case of most aircraft now which are at best beta products.

The sad thing about this is that it is probable that other teams have not wished to affect your prospects by develoing an A380. As far as the work you have done you can sit on it and not let other developers use it, and be known a the people that killed the A380 project or you can share it with acknowledgment and at leasst have the pleasure of seing some of your work finished, Ok I have just realised this was a previous stoppage. the comments still are relevant though.

ow that is a hint if there ever was one:)

Car dealers usually follow a well known release shedule but we are not talking about cars. why I want to know when it will be released is more basic. Unlike many of the millionaires here I have a fixed budget. I have a list of things I want and two forthcomming PMDG aircraft are close to the top of the list. Other things also exist on the list...airports, scenery, It would be nice to know that I could buy something and my weekly top ups will ensure that I can still buy PMDG rather than having to sit on that money..

I think he flew off in the beta beta beta dc6 for xplane 12.0

I got a nice email from a very polite gentleman in Nigeria. He has one for sale for only $900,000US. I have agreed to buy it but I have to put a deposit up first b bank draft (no credit cards). As I am housebound can someone help me send him the $200,000 deposit and I will return it when it arives.

a fantastic company with a great atitude as ell as great planes.... i feel i bought a plane plane or two but ended up wiht a friend.

i have in the past bought ff products and have been moderately satisfied however i am not sure about buying this. generally I expect a few years out of a good aircraft and after 6 months to a year a comprehensive bug fix update. i get this wiih pmdg and with aerosoft however not FF.. In fact in an interview the developer dismised faults in past planes and said that it wsas time to buy a new one. This is not playing the long game and makes me reluctant to buy this one.

I know this is an old thread but today I loaded Global , Vector and The AU pack....in P3d V3.1 All of the above problem still seem to exist. I do not feel like throwing any more money at John if he does not want to listen, For a start look at Perth....where is the Narrows bridge.....or do we all use submarines Or look at Asia....the stuff for Thailand is almost insulting.. FOr some time I have been using XPlane with a free verry very high resolution mesh. Almost all my add ons are free there. The visual quality far exceeds what I am getting f or considerable cost. for some time I have been flying for fun on Xplane and for my VA on P3D.... I thought it time to improve the view....not at this price. To paraphrase the Yellow pages add which John as an ex aussie may have seen: NOT HAPPY JOHN

I strongly suggesr fforgetting this as the next problem you will have once you get it on the computer is getting it activated. Stteam FSX now handles almost all fsx add ons and they have made considerable increases in stability and graphics by soldving a few old bugs. At the moment it is on Winter sale for $5 so I woud grab it anyway if I were you One other advantage of steam is that you can use it on several computers as long as only one at a time. Good luck anyway and if someone can tell me what to do with my three fsx disks other than using them as drink coasters please do. Thank you Microsoft for leaving us in the lurch.

Bank transfers of money are always very expensive. My suggestion iis you try to arange someone who has a credit card pay for it for you... I am pretty sure that they will not allow you to get it till they have the money. It may be easiest to send them a ticket throught their support to billing and tell them you are unable to purchase so cancel.

Any hanging chads in this poll?

I guess it will be out one time period before Tutorial 2 for the 777. Harry Woodrow

Not sure I do want it that badly. I think that for use in virtual airlines etc PMDG has done like Boeing and missed the bus. Or maybe the bus has taken over from it and PMDG does not do Airbus, Now if they had done a Dreamliner maybe there is a market but I gues they were frightened their computers would catch fire.

he cannot get into too much trouble...p3d will not work without him.